Getty Images It may not look like much is going on during naptime in preschool, but dozing youngsters are actually busy learning.
A lot is happening in the brain of a slumbering preschooler, including processing and storing memories that are the foundation for learning. That makes naptime as important as programs focused on fighting bullying or learning to wait their turn for academe’s youngest students, according to the latest research. Read More...
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Unmistakable Light. For nine years Jim Eastland seemed to have forgotten politics. He and Libby moved to the Delta, where he quietly plugged away building up a law practice in Ruleville (pop. 1,500), six miles from Doddsville. Just about everybody in Mississippi gasped with astonishment in 1941 when Governor Paul Johnson, a lifelong friend of Woods Eastland, appointed young Jim, after Woods turned it down, to fill the U. Read More...
After Republicans underperformed in the 2022 midterm elections, Donald Trump was a wounded animal. Trump-like candidates who parroted his claims about a stolen 2020 election went down to defeat. Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis—Trump’s main would-be rival for the nomination—won his own re-election race a thumping 19 points. DeSantis wasn’t alone in thinking Trump was beatable. Half a dozen others prepared bids of their own. For a brief moment, the post-Trump Republican future seemed at hand. Read More...